Eastern Indian School of Mediaeval Sculpture c4.13

c4.13

The second chapter contains a complete description of sculpture, recovered in the eastern provinces of Northern India, during the first seven centuries of the Christian era and the third is devoted to a detailed consideration of the palæographical analysis which forms the framework of this monograph. The special style adopted by the artists of the Eastern Schools of Mediæval Sculpture in the delineation of the life of Gautama Buddha is described in the fourth. The fifth and sixth chapters are devoted to the Buddhist and Hindu pantheons. Much of the original fifth chapter had to be left out on account of the long delay in printing of this book during which the material from the Buddhist sādhanas has already been utilised by other writers, specially Dr. Benoytosh Bhattacharya the author of "Buddhist Iconography." The excavations of Nālandā and the activities of the members of the Varendra Research Society, the Dacca Museum and the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad have brought to light hundreds of metal specimens and therefore it became necessary to devote a special chapter to metal casting and images. The last or the eighth chapter is devoted to a discussion of such specimens of temple architecture as still remain in the eastern provinces of Northern India, along with such architectural members as had been discovered from time to time in different parts of Bengal and Bihar.